made.good.again

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. ~Benjamin Franklin

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters. ~Roger L’Estrange, Aesop’s Fables, 1692

Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. ~John Wesley

I miss the ice-cream from passion flower. ~Anti-Climax Penny

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. ~Ice T, The Ice Opinion, quoted in Reader’s Digest, "Quotable Quotes," February 2002

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. ~Yves Saint Laurent

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. ~Amiel, Journal, 17 December 1856

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ~Honoré de Balzac

You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. ~Garrison Keillor

I’m bored of being ‘nice’, of being curled up within safe boundaries, of being ‘understanding’ and ‘accepting’, and afraid to offend. Tired of drifting along in the flow of life, wary that a little movement might send off ripples. Needing the spark of passion, to turn my "okayyyy.." into "LET’S DO IT!", my sighs into "LET’S DO IT AGAIN!", my thoughts into action, my belief into deeds. Less calculation of risks, more steps of faith. What if I stumble, or fall, or become unpopular? He is BIG enough, His grace sufficient for me.

C’mon, time for the foolish to shame the wise. There’s a great reason to.

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